Yes, I've noticed for years that Go gets heavily used in web service-oriented startups with many concurrent users (plus, its easier to pick up than Erlang :-)).

Yes, I've noticed for years that Go gets heavily used in web service-oriented startups with many concurrent users (plus, its easier to pick up than Erlang :-)). But what I would really hope to see is Go being used for anything else than servers/services. I understand this is all the rage for certain companies, but none of that directly touches my own interests. Is Go only good for that niche, or will we see Go being adopted outside that "web services world"? E.g., for building old-school desktop apps, Go's concurrency features might be pretty cool - if its not too low-level for that?